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I don't know Mr. Snyder's username on this forum, but I'd like to contact him to ask a question about the donation drive. Can anybody help me?

The Lee #1 Buckshot mold is now for sale on their website.

Do these swap in for any other hull (Cheddite? BPI Multihull?) on load data, or gotta use fiocchi-specific data?

I contacted Lee Precision to ask if they had plans to release an 18-cavity mold for #1 buckshot. Got a reply from them today that yes they are, should become available in 6 weeks, product #92068.

Based on my experience using Blue Dot with heavy .45 bullets and shotgun slugs, I don't think you're going to get favorable results trying to fire form with it. It is inconsistent and very dirty...

Acceleration. The back of the slug is being accelerated from behind and resisted by the mass/inertia of the front of the slug. This "squishing" makes the lead expand radially and the slug gets...

I have done many lyman 525s this way. I use hi-temp hot glue and slightly over-fill them all and let them cool completely. This takes care of the shrinkage issue. Then I come back and remelt just...

I just measured a few I have, cast from WW. They weigh .685" across up front and .670" on the skirt end.
***EDIT: Aw heck, I just realized you are talking about the Foster slug, not the 525 grain...

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A friend of mine helped me do my Lee 311-100-2R mold mod for .32 ACP today! I took .115" off with a fly cutter in .005" passes, just enough to fully remove the bottom driving band and lube...

I have used OneShot spray on cast before sizing, but I just saw this Elvis Ammo video on how to do lube PC boolits before sizing with Lee case sizing lube and it looks interesting. He shows how...

Humpty - you should have no problem doing that, I've put 230 grain Lee TC boolets out at 1,550 in standard .45 ACP cases with my bolt action, same load got 1,500 with 230 Hornady XTP. It was a very...

What Cap'n Morgan posted is what you get by plugging n=3 into my formula. Here's a few more worked out...

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(edited to insert table as picture because it destroyed the formatting when I'd...

I rederived the formula for this recently. For D = bore diameter (or hull/wad ID, whatever you pick for the constraint), and d = diameter of the pellet: d = D / ((1/Cos A)+1) where A = 1/2 the...

I just finished working up a load for my bolt action .45 ACP I built on a Lee Enfield No.4 action with a 24" barrel. I wanted an accurate hunting load to shoot suppressed. I am using the Speer...

50/50 would be the right hardness... Thanks.

I scored some marked pewter items at a thrift shop and some questionable stuff that I melted separately. This stuff had a dark grey finish, felt pretty dense, and was more malleable than the known...

What did you dig those out of???

I may just keep the batch of ACCOWW that I powder coated for use in the front-stuffer and try a batch of 50/50+2% for the 45 Colt. Good excuse to order a second color of powder coat - to keep my...

I powder coated and sized the batch of 160 boolits I'd already cast from COWW last night. That should give me something to work up my load with for now. They weighed 258-259.

Like the title says, Lee 452-255-RF (powder coated) for mid-atlantic white tail deer. I'd like to be able to use the same bullet at 1,300 fps (Ruger-only pistol velocity) to 1,700 fps (sabot .50 cal...

So pewter's ~2/3 the density of lead, my .600" round ball mold that would cast 324 grains in lead should be right at a half ounce in pewter. Good idea.

I bought my first piece of pewter today at a thrift shop with the intent of melting down to add to lead alloy. I saw the Pewter ID sticky, but wanted to check and see if folks have proven methods...

I love the fact that just because my # of posts here is low, y'all warning me that I'm about to fall into some strange cult! I reload 7.62x38r and fill the back of my Lyman 525 grain slugs with hot...

If all I want to do is separate my ingots into my two primary categories (clip-on WW versus stick-on), I should go at it with a 5B pencil? Reading this thread, ACCOWW could be Brinell 9-12 so if 5B...